Gentlemen Among Themselves

Gentlemen Among Themselves is a 1929 German comedy directed by Vienna-born Rudolf Walther-Fein, who began as an actor, debuted on stage at 17 in Iglau, and moved into screenwriting and directing in Berlin in 1919. Its story, by Franz Rauch, follows a woman warning her husband that his stag party will be his last; the revelry gets out of hand, he is knocked unconscious and his engraved lighter stolen. The lighter is then used to identify a thief, and the now-sober husband believes himself a wanted man. Hermann Picha and Lydia Potechina play the couple, with Maria Paudler as their daughter and Walter Rilla as her erstwhile suitor.